This series is greatly influenced by my experiences digging through layers of time on archaeological digs in the Middle East. From an early age, I was fascinated with how man takes elements from the Earth,

refines it for some use, then discards it only to be reclaimed by the Earth.

The centers contain found objects buried in acrylic polymer emulsions, then covered with very thick layers of oil paint. The outer part is a relief impasto. The outer part is a relief impasto of acrylic paint and acrylic polymer emulsions continuing over the edge of the paintings, which have a depth up to four inches. 

I like to combine the new with old when making my choices for found objects. I have used everything from a cell phone to an ancient thousands of year old artifacts. Other examples include: a WWII vintage German typewriter, Indian arrowheads, fossils, driftwood, computer parts, car parts, spider eggs, amongst other things. The idea is that all of these objects came from the same thing and are part of the same thing.

What do you think your computer will look like in thousands or millions years? In the larger scope of things there’s not that much difference between an “ancient” artifact and a modern day artifact. 

Part of the philosophy behind these paintings is that everything is interconnected, and that humankind’s compartmentalizaton of the world can be a sort of denial. We are not separate from nature.